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promised him all the money she possessed. Thus encouraged he sent for Rajah 
Nagar Mall, Lachmi Narayan, and Ismail Beg Khan, The latter advised 
_ waiting for an army from Afghanistan. N agar Mall proposed calling in the 
Rohelas, who, owing to the attack on them by Kaim Khan, bore ill-will to 
the Farrukhabid Pathans. The Wazir rejected this advice, saying that 
_ though Pathans might fight amongst themselves, they would always unite 
against any third person. He then asked Lachmi Nardyan for his 
opinion, In reply he called attention to the large force of 70,000 or 80,000 
Mabhrattas, under Jai Ap4 and Mulhdr Rao, then in the neighbourhood of 
; Kotdh,* and reminded the Wazir that the Pathdns started at the sound of 
the Mahratta name, and that one thousand Mahrattas could dispose of 
 tenthousand Pathans. The Wazir determined to invoke the aid of the 
 Mahrattas. 
4 The next important point was to effect a reconciliation with the Hm- 
peror. For this purpose Jugal Kishor was sent to ask help from Nawab 
Nazir Jawed Khan, the Emperor’s favourite eunuch. After he had heard 
the full details of the Wazir’s case, the Nawab Nazir said the matter could 
only be discussed in a personal interview. On Wednesday he would ride 
| _ out to pray at the shrine of the saint, Sultan-ul-Mushaikh Nizam-ud-din. 
_ On his way back he would come to the Wazir’s house, when he would state 
the obstacles toa settlement. Jugal Kishor returned and reported these 
words to his master. On the Wednesday, after paying a visit to the shrine 
‘of Niziam-ud-din,-Jawed Khan came privately to the Wazir’s house. After 
other conversation, the Nazir said to the Wazir that the Emperor’s mind 
had, in an extreme degree, been turned against him, nor could any remark 
favourable to him be ventured on in the Emperor’s presence; and Nawab 
Firiz Jang was so strenuous in support of Nawd4b Ahmad Khan, that no 
one dare open his mouth to say a word to the contrary. The Wazir said 
some words easy to understand (karib-ul-fahm, 7. e., offered a bribe, I sup- 
_ pose) to the Nazir, asking his intercession with the Emperor and using at the 
same time powerful arguments. The Nawab Nazir professed himself con- 
yinced, and promised that when he saw a chance he would speak in Safdar 
_Jang’s favour and, please God, he would turn the Emperor’s heart towards 
him. He then rose, mounted, and went home. 
: Three days afterwards a news-letter came from the writer attached to 
“Abmad Khin’s camp. He wrote that the eastern zamindars, Rajah Pirthi- 
pat, Rajah Balwant Singh and others, had brought treasure and had sub- 
mitted themselves to Nawab Ahmad Khan ; they had joined him in laying 
siege to Allahabad, which would shortly fall ; a large army had collected and 
was gathering strength every day, a hundred thousand horsemen and number- 
On the Chambal, 195 miles S. W. of Agra, and 260 miles from Delhi, 
